Improved method of securing soles to boots and shoes



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ASSIGNORS TOJTHEMSELYESAND J. M. GOULDING,

OF SAME PLACE.'

Letters Patent No. 100,723, dated March. l5, 1870.

IMPROVED METHOD OF SECfUiRI1L1'G- SOLES TO BOOTS AND SHOES.

The Schedule referred to vin these Lettera Patent and making part oi the same..

To all ,whom lit may concern.

Be it known that we, CHARLES S. CHAFFEE and ALEXANDER WAHLIG, of Birmingham, in the county of New Haven, and State. of Connecticut, have in.

vented a new and useful Improvement in Attaching i ification.

This invention relates to improvements in attaching soles-to boots and slices; and consists in attaching them by screws passed through eyelets formed in or connected to an endless wire, which 'is laid in a channel eut in the sole to/ sink the wire below its surface, the said eyelets being made to coincide with the holes formed for the screws, and the 'said holes being hrge enough to permit the screws to be forced well down into them, so as to produce such tension on the wire as to cause it to hold the outer or half-sole snuglyl to the ill-sole, between the holes.

The object of the invention is to so simplify the process of half-soling and` heeling boots and shoes that have been worn, that persons unskilled in boot and shoe-making may readily. attach them; also, to prevent the cut-ting of the iii-soles by repeated pegging or l sewing on the outer soles, now so common, the screws being placed so far apart that, n0 matter how often the re-soling may he done, the iii-soles will not be damaged thereby.

Figure l is a plan of the bottom of a shoe with a hallsoleatt-ached by our improved mode, the eyelets being formed on the wire by bending it;

Figure 2 is a section through a part of the same;

Figure 3 is a section showing the eyelet formed of sheet metal, and attached to the wire by soldering or otherwise; and Y,

Figure 4 is another section, in which'the eyel'etv made of sheet meta-l is provided with a projection merely hooking on the wire. t

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the half-sole;

A the in-sole;

B the wire;

C the screws; and

D the eyelets.

The wire is made of suitable length to extend around the sole, near the edge, as shown, and to form an eyelet for each screw-hole.

The. wire is in that case laid in a channel out in the sole from one screw-h ole to another. lh e screw-holes are made large enough at the top to admit the eyelets, so that the screws passing through them may draw them below the bottom of the groove, in order, to hold the wire under great tension. In this way the sole may be secured very firmly with but few screws, and those at such distances apart that no damage will be done to the iii-soles.

Instead of forming the eyelets 011 the wire as described, we may make them of sheet metal, in the shape of" washers, and solder them to the wire passing across the holes in the sole, as shown in tig. 3, or

we may connect them detachably, by hooking them to the wire, as shown in lig. 3, where'E represents4 a hook or projection ou one side ofthe eyelet, the same hooking over the wire.

Having thus described `our invention,

We claim as new, and desire to sec-ure by Letters .Patent- The herein-described method of securing soles of vboots and shoes to the iii-soles, by ineans of screws 'passing through eyelets formed on or attached to a wire which is laid in a channel extending around thc sole, near the edges, the said eyelets fitting in the screw-holes which intersect the channel, and being forced in by thescrews to tighten up the wire, all substantially as specified.

The above specification of our invention signed by us this 4th day ot' January, ISTO.A CHAS. S. CHAFFEE.

A. lVAHLlG.

lVit-n esses:

GEO. W. MABEE, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

